1967 Lincoln Cent - Grade It!

I'll say MS-67.

with the scratches on the jaw and lapel I cant see it higher than MS65 color using these photos is a challenge. I think it could be RB but lighting could be shadowing it. interesting fields. I cant remember seeing one with those mirror like surfaces

John1 could very well be correct ; It does look like an SMS coin . Reverse looks clean as a whistle . Love the obverse proof-like fields .

Picked this up at our local show yesterday. The dealer had it in his glass case with $50 on it - of course, that caught my eye. As he was handing me it to I asked why a raw 1967 cent is so valuable. He said it's the best one he's ever seen. After I inspected it for a few seconds I asked him if he had never seen an SMS cent. He said he though it was a biz strike! He was cool about it as I explained and showed him the difference. Obviously, I ended up getting for much, much less....actually, he paid me because he was buying some coins from me and I collected the difference in cash. :)

The 2x2 it was in was filthy - got it home and noticed the scratch on the neck after I pulled it out and blew the dust off. arrrrrrgggggg

It's a good thing I came out on the deal. This is a details coin now with a scratch right in the middle of it. Other than that, it is what a thought - about an SP-67 coin. I was also hoping the cameo was better under good light - show lighting sucks. The cameo is pretty light but looks better in hand against the mirrored fields.

Awesome pics! Wonder how you can get that detail and still stays less than 300kb?

Light, camera, cropping and resize. My SD700IS is only a 6MP cam = 2816x2112 pix. Right from my camera the images are only about 1600k. After crop and resize to 1000x1000 pixels (using Jasc Paint Shop Pro) they easily come out less than 300k - around 160k. I never use ANY post-processing or trickery other than a resize, these things also affect the file size.

In this day and age of 20+MP cell phones and cameras the pictures are natively huge. The digital compression must be gigantic to overcome the file size limitations - thereby affecting the quality of the image. If you can, drop your camera down to a lower MP resolution like 2500x2500 or so.

I saw SP67 with that trustingly tantalizing cam hints on obverse, reverse to me is 66. These are too hit and miss for me I bought about 50 sets 3 years ago not all at once but pecking trying to learn SMS grading maybe a cameo? spent money on 7 best they came back 66's no cams. However...I bought some cameos examples for the 1965 66 67 when they were 190 - $260 bucks crapiedoodle I sold them I miss them and their higher than 2018 by alot.
Small niche market but young boomers and genXer's are noticing and appreciating these more than 6 years ago. The days of their numbers in hundreds of thousands at shows are now thousands good going T-bop you never know that $600 65 or 66 cameo SMS is in some trailer home in oklahoma

You got 67's on business strikes, this is an SMS coin - big difference. No matter, this coin is ruined with the scratch on it IMO.